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Not today Justin
trying on a metaphor
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PUT YOUR BEARD IN MY MOUTH

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if i look back, i am lost
occasionally subtle
Sweet Seals For You, Always
hello vonnie
Lint Roller? I Barely Know Her
we're not kids anymore.
Sade Olutola
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@athousandmistingdawns
“Summer is growing old and everything is flowing into a single melancholy murmur.”
— Tomas Tranströmer, from “The Cuckoo,” New Collected Poems: Dikter och prosa 1954-2004 (Bloodaxe Books, 2015)
“Good morning, tree These things I want– What’s passed Past What’s undone Done”
— Jasmine Dreame Wagner, from “Assault with Butterflies,” The Literary Review: An International Journal of Contemporary Writing (vol. 62, no. 1, Spring 2019)
Toni Morrison
"I tell my students, ‘When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else."
Rest in Power.
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Kedi (2016)
Springtime in NYC by Joe Thomas
“As workers, most men in our culture (like working women) are controlled, dominated. Unlike working women, working men are fed daily a fantasy diet of male supremacy and power. In actuality, they have very little power, and they know it. Yet they do not rebel against the economic order or make revolution. They are socialized by ruling powers to accept their dehumanization and exploitation in the public world of work, and they are taught to expect that the private world, the world of home and intimate relationships, will restore to them their sense of power, which they equate with masculinity. They are taught that they will be able to rule in the home, to control and dominate, that this is the big payoff for their acceptance of an exploitative economic social order. By condoning and perpetuating male domination of women to prevent rebellion on the job, ruling male capitalists ensure that male violence will be expressed in the home and not in the work force.”
— bell hooks, Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center (via heavyweightheart)
“I have had days stare back at me as if to say, let’s see who will darken first.”
— William Olsen, from “The Day After the Day of the Dead,” Field Guide to Prose Poetry: Contemporary Poets in Discussion and Practice, ed. Gary L. McDowell and F. Daniel Rzicznek (Rose Metal Press, 2010) … Three years later and they still do …
All night I heard the small kingdoms breathing around me, the insects, and the birds who do their work in the darkness. All night I rose and fell, as if in water, grappling with a luminous doom. By morning I had vanished at least a dozen times into something better.
Mary Oliver, Sleeping in the Forest (from Twelve Moons).
I wish people would focus less on ‘women are expected to wear makeup’ which often isn’t true anyway and therefore very easy to ignore and more on ‘women are expected to visibly and obviously perform femininity through appearance and even down to the way they move, and non compliance is punished’ which is much more universally true and a lot harder to dismiss
Women are largely expected to wear makeup at least on occasion, although I would go as far as to say that the average woman only wears makeup a handful of times a month. When you take specific economic factors in account, it’s even less universal, because women whose jobs are more physically demanding are less likely to wear makeup. Ex, a CNA in a facility that requires a lot of lifting and turning patients is less likely to feel that she has to wear makeup to work, while a doctor almost certainly has to wear some level of makeup to be taken seriously. A woman who works in a facility’s kitchen sweating all day is less likely to have makeup play a part of her job needs than a woman waiting tables for tips.
And some women may be able to go through their lives without feeling any real level of pressure to wear makeup, and that’s largely due to the fact that they conform to gendered expectations more fully than many other women are seen as doing. Like, a woman who is seen as conventionally attractive and wears fitted clothes, has long hair, a delicate bone structure, is pale skinned in their community, and is thin with noticeable breasts is likely able to go without makeup completely, sometimes even to special events.
While a woman whose very body is seen as performing womanhood inappropriately will be required to compensate for that in a multitude of ways.
Because of this, it’s easy for people who have no real interest to engage about the difficulties of women’s experience to say that makeup is wholly a personal choice, devoid of political force. Because they can easily point to many of the women in their own personal lives hardly ever wearing makeup, so it’s not a real issue.
And this is largely because it frames the issue as just that: women feeling they have to wear makeup. Instead of women being punished for not conforming to a very specific and rigid gendered expectation. And it’s one of the reasons heterosexual feminists who argue women should be freed from the expectation of makeup will still present huge amounts of distaste and hatred for gnc women and ‘mannish dykes’.
Like. If tomorrow, it was just as normal and expected for men to wear makeup as it is for women, women’s lot in the world would not be improved in the slightest. If your could go back and somehow prevent makeup from ever being a thing, women would still suffer in the same ways, the rituals women must perform would simply look slightly different.
TL;DR: By choosing to focus on an issue that while real is easily dismissed and impacted by a million other factors because it is a symptom of the much larger problem without discussing what the problem is and that this is simply a single facet of how it happens, the argument is easily dismissed and frankly not going to do much but loosen the shackles on a very limited number of women while most experience no loosening of their chains.
And for gods sake ‘this is easy to argue against because it’s not as universal as it’s often framed, and discussions of this often don’t really touch on why it’s an issue’ doesn’t warrant a ‘but it was true for me so oh well’
The academy is not paradise. But learning is a place where paradise can be created. The classroom with all its limitations remains a location of possibility. In that field of possibility we have the opportunity to labour for freedom, to demand of ourselves and our comrades, an openness of mind and heart that allows us to face reality even as we collectively imagine ways to move beyond boundaries, to transgress. This is education as the practice of freedom.
bell hooks Teaching to Transgress. Education as the Practice of Freedom 1994
Behind A Little House , Manuel Cosentino.
can you believe female hysteria was considered like an actual medical thing… god
mary louise moneybags in 1880: im horny all the time and also sad and i feel dissatisfied with my shitty life i dont want kids i hate my dad and my husband
dr mis o’geny: i diagnose you with WOMAN
fun fact if you’re a man you’re not allowed to laugh at this joke bcus i don’t go a day without hearing about how girls are all overemotional unstable and crazy so you all still think like this you’ve just gotten better at phrasing it in a way that doesnt seem like bullshit at first glance
GERHARD VETTER - Nude 1973